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Box Score 10/19: Lin, Glavine, Nolan and Cleveland
Where do you even get a miniature goat to wear? AP Photo/Jae C. Hong

Box Score 10/19: Lin, Glavine, Nolan and Cleveland

Welcome to the YB Box Score, what we're reading while figuring out the best in Dodgers, Cubs and goats fashions. 

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"In all fairness, with the exception of the run of Albert Belle, Kenny Lofton, Jim Thome and company some 20 years ago, Cleveland has been a dead source of baseball spotlight for decades. Charlie Sheen and Corbin Bernsen are more prominent mainstream Indians in the minds of some than many of the players that are inhabiting the jersey on an increasing amount of televisions around the nation. Yet despite this negligence to their road to sitting on the brink of history, these Indians are perhaps the most dangerous set of unknowns in baseball history." - No longer laying low, Cleveland's ready for the big show

"It's a new challenge for Lin, and even with all the hoopla surrounding his career, this is his first extended opportunity – on his sixth NBA team in his career – to run his own team, something that he hasn't afforded with the Knicks four years ago. "I definitely feel a much stronger responsibility for this leadership role that I didn’t in my last two to three teams,” Lin said on media day. During preseason, Lin has taken those steps, scoring 21 points on 7-for-11 shooting in 17 minutes in a home win over the Pistons in his first exhibition game, making five three-pointers and showing off a revamped jumper he's been working on for two summers." - A much different Jeremy Lin makes his return to New York

"It's a ridiculous metric that toes the causation vs. correlation line without really telling a story. Watch any free throw attempt this season and you'll see how meaningless high fives are for these guys. If you want to measure camaraderie, find was to quantify what teams are doing off the court. Instagram and Snapchat is the best way to find which teammates are close and which teams are spending time together on their off days – or at least spending the kind of time together that won't get them in any kind of trouble." - Is the 'high five' metric the only weird stat the NBA should track?

"However, not even the most optimistic of fans could predict just how quickly this team would turn things around. Who knew that at team that finished in last place place in four of the previous five seasons would win the NL West and begin a string of 14 consecutive division titles? And that Pendleton would become the NL MVP in 1991 and Glavine would win his first Cy Young Award? Virtually no one, I'd venture to say." - The best ever? Remembering the Twins-Braves WS 25 years later

"An awkward split with the Packers followed with Favre traded to the Jets, where a hot 8-3 start on the 2008 season ended with the team dropping four of its last five and Favre retiring yet again — only to come back and then sign with the Minnesota Vikings for the 2009 NFL season. Favre ended concerns over his health and ability to perform by leading the Vikings to a 12-4 season and an NFC Championship Game appearance, but the following season, announced as his last, saw injuries grind Favre down throughout, ultimately cutting his season short in mid-December, this time for good." - Past their primes: Athletes who couldn't say goodbye
 

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